See also:PARSONS (or PERSONS), See also:ROBERT (1546-161o)
, See also:English Jesuit and See also:political agitator, son of a blacksmith, was See also:born at Nether Stowey, See also:Somerset, on the 24th of See also:June 1546
.
The See also:vicar of the See also:parish gave him instruction and procured his entrance in 1563 as an exhibitioner to Balliol See also:College, See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford
.
He graduated B.A. in 1568, and M.A. in 1572
.
He was See also:fellow, See also:bursar and See also:dean of his college, but in 1574 he resigned or was dismissed his fellow-See also:ship and offices, for reasons which have been disputed, some alleging improprieties of conduct, and others suspected disloyalty
.
Soon after his resignation he went to See also:London, and thence in June to See also:Louvain, where he entered the See also:Roman See also:Catholic See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church and spent some See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time in the See also:company of See also:Father See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Good, a Jesuit
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In See also:July 1575 he entered the Jesuit Society at See also:Rome
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In r58o he was selected, along with See also:Edmund See also:Campion, a former See also:associate at Oxford, and others, to undertake a See also:secret religious and political See also:mission to See also:England
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The two emissaries engaged in political intrigue in England and on the See also:Continent
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In 1581 Campion was arrested, but See also:Parsons made his See also:- ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli
escape to See also:Rouen, whence he returned to Rome, where he continued to See also:direct the English mission
.
In 1588 he went to See also:Spain, where he remained for nine years, See also:founding seminaries for the training of English priests at See also:Valladolid, Lucar, See also:Seville, See also:Lisbon and St Omer
.
On the See also:death of See also:Cardinal See also:- ALLEN, BOG OF
- ALLEN, ETHAN (1739–1789)
- ALLEN, GRANT CHARLES GRANT BLAIRFINDIEI, (1848–1899)
- ALLEN, JAMES LANE (1850– )
- ALLEN, JOHN (1476–1534)
- ALLEN, or ALLEYN, THOMAS (1542-1632)
- ALLEN, WILLIAM (1532-1594)
- ALLEN, WILLIAM FRANCIS (183o-1889)
Allen in 1594 he made strenuous efforts to be appointed his successor
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He failed in this, but was made See also:rector of the English college at Rome in 1597, and died there on the 18th of See also:April 1610
Parsons was the author of over 30 polemical writings, mostly tracts
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Among the more important are Certayne Reasons why Cntholiques refuse to goe to Church (See also:Douai, 158o), A See also:Christian Directorie guiding Men to their Saluation (London, 1583-1591, 2 parts), A See also:Conference about the Next See also:Succession to the See also:Crowne of Ingland (1594), See also:Treatise of the Three Conversions of England (1603-1604, 3 parts), an See also:answer to See also:Foxe's Acts and Monuments
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For portrait, see See also:Gentleman's See also:Magazine, lxiv
.
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